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8.00 Credits
This course explores the shape and scope of American literary expression in the first half of the twentieth century. Topics will include modernism(s); the Harlem Renaissance; immigrant, expatriate, and regionalist writing; sexuality and gender; proletarian and popular fiction; and the intersection of literary and visual cultures. Authors may include Agee, Anderson, Cather, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Glaspell, H.D., Hemingway, Hughes, Hurst, Hurston, Larsen, Mitchell, Moore, Steinbeck, Stevens, Toomer, andWright. Meets Humanities I-A requirement E. Young Prereq. 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the work of a range of the most important cultural theorists of the last 50 years and consider what they can contribute to the analysis of all forms of cultural works, both past and present.We will be particularly interested in writers who attempt to construct models that seek to explain everything, who in their intellectual projects try to think the totality. This semester we will be focusing onWestern Marxism, particularly in relation to cultural theory. Meets Humanities I-A requirement N. Alderman Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Fall 2008 345f(01) The Career and Legacy of Richard Wright The first half of this seminar examines the major works of RichardWright, including Uncle Tom's Children, 12 Million Black Voices, Native Son, Black Boy, and Black Power. The second half exploresWright's literary influence along with his political legacy to a range of modern and contemporary authors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, Ousmane Sembene, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement D.Weber Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101 or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits 345f(02) Faulkner and Modern SouthernWriting Studies of works, principally novels and short stories, by Southern writers from the late 1920s on. Main emphasis is on Faulkner; others to be read may include Tate,Welty, Toomer, O'Connor, Percy, and Martin. Meets Humanities I-A requirement R. Shaw Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department 1700-1900 requirement; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
(Writing-intensive course; Same as American Studies 301s-01 & Gender Studies 333s-03) In this course we will look at media and legal representations of prisoners and especially at the writing of prisoners themselves. Authors include Barbara Harlow, Jennifer Gonnerman, Mumia Abu-Jamal, George Jackson, and Salwa Bakr. Movies may include Dead ManWalking and AileenWuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Some are castigated as rule breakers; structures are built for them, and in these realms men and women are cordoned off, envisioned and held separately in their transgressions--what stories emerge from the prisoners' mouths Do those stories challenge the deep architecture of the prisons themselves Meets Humanities I-A requirement S. Davis Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This class will probe the global conflicts exploding around us to find the material forces hidden there.We will briefly study market cultures from time out of mind to recover how Greek and Renaissance literature reconciled "civilization" with the ancient powersthat precede it and remain occulted within it. Topics will include neoliberalism and neoconservatism; terrorism, counter-terrorism, and torture; and, inevitably, the u.S. in the Middle East. Fiction by Coetzee, Ondaatje, Rushdie, Devi, and Subcomandante Marcos; documentary film on the Caribbean and Chiapas as well as the backrooms of u.S. foreign enterprise; theory by Klare, E. Ahmed, Khalidi, Mamdani, and Chomsky, among others. Meets Humanities I-A requirement S. Ahmed Prereq. jr, sr, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Biography is both a literary genre and a mode of literary scholarship. This course will explore some varieties of the biographical impulse in both fiction and non-fiction.We will begin with eighteenth-century British models: Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets and James Boswell's Life of Johnson. Then we will turn to ideas of biography and literary portraiture in the work of Henry James and Gertrude Stein.We will explore the shi? associated with the advent of Freud and the Bloomsbury innovations of Lytton Strachey and VirginiaWoolf, and close with attention to recent experiments in biography by writers such as Janet Malcolm, Rachel Cohen, and Richard Holmes. Meets Humanities I-A requirement C. Benfey Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
A study of post-WorldWar II traditional and experimental fictions. The reading list will be regularly revised but will be selected from the work of novelists such as John Fowles, Graham Swi?, Joan Didion, John Berger, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, David Mitchell, and Margaret Atwood. Meets Humanities I-A requirement W. Quillian Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101, including English 200 or English 280, or permission of instructor; previous courses in the novel highly recommended; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
In this course we will read some of the central texts emerging from the field of cultural studies. In their research projects, students will have the opportunity to put into practice both ethnographic and semiotic approaches to cultural phenomena. Assigned readings will include work by RaymondWilliams, Constance Penley on Star Trek fanzines, Kathy Acker on bodybuilding, Anna Deavere Smith, Roland Barthes, and Stuart Hall. Can we "read" the world like a text Why shouldwe What changes when we open up our field of inquiry in this way Meets Humanities I-A requirement S. Davis Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in department beyond English 101; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
(Same as Gender Studies 333f-05) This seminar will focus on depictions of war in the context of gender.When asked how we might prevent war, VirginiaWoolf suggested that we must invent new language and methods rather than follow the path of the traditional "procession of educated men."What languageemerges in works about the effects of war Texts will include essays and films as well as selected works by writers such as Alcott, Whitman, Crane, Twain, Hemingway,Woolf, Silko, Morrison, and O'Brien. Meets Humanities I-A requirement L. Glasser Prereq. jr or sr; 8 credits beyond the 100 level in English or Gender Studies or permission of instructor; meets English department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Gender Studies 333s-02 and Film Studies 380s-01) This course will examine the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the a?erlife of Hitchcock in contemporary u.S. culture.We will interpret Hitchcock films in a variety of theoretical frames, including feminist and queer theories, and in historical contexts including the ColdWar.We will also devote substantial attention to the legacy of Hitchcock in remakes, imitations, and parodies. Hitchcock films may include Spellbound, Strangers on a Train, RearWindow, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The ManWho Knew Too Much, Mamie, andThe Birds; additional works by Brooks, Craven, De Palma, and Sherman. Readings in film and cultural theory; screenings at least weekly. Meets Humanities I-A requirement E. Young Prereq. jr, sr, at least 4 credits in film studies, and at least 4 credits in English beyond 101, or permission of instructor; 1 meeting (3 hours); plus weekly screening; meets English Department seminar requirement; 4 credits
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